"Japanese-Americans sew for Red Cross. Demonstrating their loyalty to this country, members of the Japanese-Alameda Citizens League of Alameda are working around the clock to produce garments for distribution to war victims through the Red Cross. Here Mrs. Saku Mitani, 80, operates a sewing machine while Toshiko Kado, left, and Tazuko Wakabayashi, right look on. More than 100 women members of the League have worked 2000 hours in making garments since the Pacific War began." -- caption on photograph.
"Loyal Americans All. These Japanese-American girls, born and reared in this country, are doing what they can for this country's victory. They've formed a volunteer San Francisco Red Cross unit, to which fifteen other Japanese-American girls belong. They are Nisei, or, second generation Japanese. Left to right: Frances Miwa, Alice Murai and Mrs. Roy Ishikawa." -- caption on photograph.
"They're Japanese -- but loyal Americans. Some of the nation's most loyal citizens are those of Japanese, German and Italian descent, most of them natives of this country but many immigrants who have transferred their allegiance to their adopted land. These are the people for whom Attorney General Francis Biddle has asked consideration. Typical of the loyal American-born Japanese is the Tsukamoto family of San Francisco, pictured here. Head of the family is World War I veteran Kaytaro Tsukamoto, owner of a laundry and at present commander of the San Francisco Japanese American Legion Post. Their typically American household includes an 11-year-old son, Wilmer, who attends public school and Mrs. Tsukamoto's sister, Miss Sachi Yasukochi, a 1939 honor graduate of the University of California. Tsukamoto's brother, Joseph, is pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Christ Church in the city's Japanese district. In this picture, which might be duplicated in any American home, the Tsukamotos gather around the piano to hear Miss Yasukochi play. Left to right are: Mrs. Joseph Tsukamoto and her husband, Mrs. Kaytaro Tsukamoto, her son Wilmer, and Kaytar Tsukamoto who is holding his three-year-old niece, Paula." -- caption on photograph.
